Railroad cross-tie and rail-fastening



(HoModeL) 4 D. S. WHI'TTENHALL. Railroad Gross-Tie and Rail-Fastening.

Patented May 11, 1880.

' W I TJVESSES By, @w .flttof'neys N.PETERS. FHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER.WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

"DANIEL S. WHITTENHALL, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

RAILROAD CROSS-TIE AND RAIL-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 227,602, dated May 11,1880.

' Application filed April 3, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- g Fig. l of the accompanying drawings,illus- Be it known that I, DANIEL S. WHIITEN- trating my presentinvention, shows a per- HALL, a citizen of the United States, and aspective view of my improved tie and fastenresident of Denver, in thecounty of Arapahoe, ing appliances. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of 5 inthe State of Colorado, have invented cera rail in place and an endelevation of my tie; tain 1m provements in Railroad Gross-Ties and andFig. 3 is an end view of a rail in place and Means of Securing Rails tothem, of which the 'of a tie, partly in section. following is aspecification. A indicates a corrugated metallic tie pro- My inventionrelates to the corrugated mevided with slots B, right angular at b and1o tallic railroad cross-tie for which Letters Patoblique or partlyV-shaped at b and provided ent No. 185,808 were granted me December withbolts 0. In this case the bolt is riveted 26, 187 6, which patented tieconsists ofa single or otherwise permanently secured to the rib of pieceof metal corrugated in the process of the tie, and provided with the nutD manufacture, and provided with fitting trans- In Figs. 2 and 3 I showthe boltdetachable 6o 15 verse slots or apertures near its opposite endsfrom v the tie and provided with an elongated for receiving and seatingthe track-rails. bolt-head, X. In this latter case the bolt is Figure 4of the accompanying drawings applied from the under side of the rib ofthe shows a perspective view of one end of a crosstie, as will beapparent from the drawings.

tie provided with a series of transverse aper- This plan of. securingthe rails has all the ad- 2o tures for seating the rails and a sectionof a vantagesof security and durability of the one rail in position tohe slid into the apertures disclosed in my said patent, and, in additionendwise and seated upon the tie, according to thereto, very greatlyfacilitates the laying of said patent. I the track and the removal orexchange of rails,

The plan of securing the rails to the ties by which latter can be done,when my present im- 2 5 sliding the ties onto the rails, or sliding theprovement is employed, without disturbing rails into the tie-slots, inorder to lay the track, the tie or the earth in which it is embedded,and ihen of drawing the rails out endwise, or by simply unscrewing thenut, leaving the bolt sliding the ties off the rails, in order to takeup in its place, tilting up the outside of the rail, the track, asillustrated in Fig. 4, and as conand sliding it out of its seat.

30 templated in said patent, is attended with Having thus described myinvention, what great inconvenience in practice, and it is the .I claimas new, and desire to secure by Letters object of my present improvementto overcome Patent, isthis difficulty. I therefore provide an im- 1. Thecorrugated crosstic provided with proved form of slot in the cross-tie,shaped as the rail-seating slot oblique or V-shaped upon 5 illustratedin Fig. 2-that is to say, oblique one side and right-angular upon theother,

or V-shaped at only one end and right angular substantially asspecified.

at the other endwhich enables me to lay the 2. The combination of thecorrugated crossrails in place readily, and when there I secure tie,slotted as described, the rail, and the fastthem, by means of a bolt andnut, upon the, ening-bolt and nut, all substantially as speci- 4oright-angular end of the slot, while the V- fied.

shaped end of the slot holds the base-flan es as shown in said patent. g7 DANIEL WHITTENHALL' The metal point of the V- shaped slot endWitnesses:

can be struck down upon the flange of the rail, J. W. ANDERSON, 4 5 ifdesired, when the tie is made of Wrought W. S. CARTER.

metal. Y

